Calling modern-made clothing “vintage” is a disservice to the real thing

Please allow me a small rant. The term vintage applies only to items that were made at least 20 years ago. Why does this distinction matter? What’s the difference when it was made?

Here’s just one example: I have a long silk dress in my Etsy shop. Designed (by Helga) and sewn in the U.S., it was sold in a local department store—and I mean in Spokane, not New York. The construction is couture quality. Can you go to your local store and find anything like this now? Does the first page of a Google search for “vintage dress” show anything like this? Are any of those Google-search dresses unique?

Yes, this dress compelled me to wear a crown!

So maybe you don’t care if your dress is made fancily. I’m not a big label snob myself, but… are the new “vintage” dresses on the first page of Google using fewer of our resources? Were they made by fairly paid workers? Will they last?

Does any of this matter?

Here’s the word cloud for a Google “vintage dress” search.

Now here’s the word cloud for the description of the authentic vintage dress I described above.

The prosecution rests her case.

#truevintagefashion forever!  Thank YOU for caring!

Written by Maggie Wilds/denisebrain